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Funding Start-Up Genius in Cambridge

2.1.12

In an effort to keep the next Bill Gates
and Mark
Zuckerberg from fleeing to Silicon Valley, the University has partnered
with a venture capital firm, New Enterprise
Associates (NEA)—the first outside investor in Groupon Inc.—to begin the Experiment Fund, a seed-stage venture
fund that will bankroll student start-ups developed and maintained in
Cambridge.

Hosted by the School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), the Experiment Fund will select
certain student start-ups to receive up to $250,000 in seed funding during the
next two years, focusing on three core areas: information, healthcare, and
energy technologies. Although the fund
is affiliated with the University and will initially start with Harvard
students, it will operate independently and will eventually consider teams from
other local schools, and in other East Coast locations. SEAS
dean Cherry A. Murray will designate faculty members from the school to
advise student entrepreneurs about the fund and other available resources, such
as the new Harvard
Innovation Lab.

“We are very excited about the Experiment Fund; we believe
it will provide a much-needed set of people, skills, and financial resources to
spur the innovation and idea creation of our students,” said Murray in a press
release.

Chung, who is co-head of NEA’s consumer and seed-stage
investing practices and serves as an expert-in-residence at SEAS, said the fund
will entice young innovators to stay connected to the area: “Cambridge has
always seeded and cultivated brilliant minds and entrepreneurs, and now they’ll
have another reason to stay rooted in and draw strength from these fertile
soils,” he said in a press release.